On this day: January 24

The California Gold Rush begins, the Eskimo Pie is patented, Jackie Robinson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the first Apple Macintosh goes on sale, all on this day.

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1984: The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. It would go on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface, rather than a command-line interface.

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